- a variation of embarkation.
embarcation
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This week the volunteers were packing up for embarcation at Buenaventura.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why did we leap forward to volunteer before we were wanted and continue to leap till, for very boredom, they sent us embarcation orders and a free warrant?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 by Various
Masulipatam was also a port of embarcation for the East and was connected with Broach by a trade route running through Tagara, now Têr in the Nizam's dominions.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
The idea pleased the Marquise; but who would undertake to discover the fugitive and arrange for her embarcation?
From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]
Now a person may be passing Basingstoke on his way either to Southampton or Plymouth, both of which are ports of embarcation for various foreign countries.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant
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